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Melanie McFarland is Salon's award-winning senior culture critic. Follow her on Bluesky: @McTelevision

Ellen DeGeneres at the 2020 Grammys (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Thank goodness Ellen DeGeneres got her apology out of the way so audiences can laugh again

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Aya Cash as Stromfront on "The Boys" (Amazon Studios)

“The Boys”: With new superhero Stormfront, fascism dons a mask and cape of female empowerment

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Director Alex Gibney for HBO's "Agents of Chaos" (HBO)

“There’s no agreement on facts”: Alex Gibney’s look at Russian interference shows America’s weakness

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Frontline: The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden (PBS)

“The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden” gives insight into the “life method” of our next president

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THE 72ND EMMY AWARDS! Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, featuring video conference with Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, and Courteney Cox (ABC)

The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen

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Wunmi Mosaku in Lovecraft County (HBO)

Should a horror anthology like “Lovecraft Country” be expected to speak to any particular moment?

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Ratched (Netflix)

“Ratched” gilds pop culture’s most famous nurse into something unrecognizable and barely watchable

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Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle in "PEN15" (Alex Lombardi)

“PEN15” returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade

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Police Vehicles (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Frontline’s “Policing the Police 2020” shows Newark’s troubled police force slouching towards reform

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Paris Hilton (CBS This Morning)

“This is Paris” is a quixotic redemption story about what it means to be a human and a brand at once

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Abbey Lee in "Lovecraft County" and Reese Witherspoon in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Photo illustration by Salon/HBO/Hulu)

“Lovecraft Country” sorceress is America’s Next Top Karen, joining TV’s other ultimate Karens

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Sarah Paulson in "Coastal Elites" (HBO)

“Coastal Elites” is a noble attempt to clap back at Trump’s America in the time of quarantine

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The Duchess (Oliver Upton/NETFLIX)

“The Duchess” proves that not every stand-up comedian should get a series

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Barbie Ferreira and Haley Lu Richardson in "Unpregnant" (Ursula Coyote)

“Unpregnant” takes a serious subject and makes it the reason for a road trip

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Lamorne Morris in "Woke" (Joe Lederer/Hulu)

Lamorne Morris shines in “Woke,” which pokes at one man’s dawning realization of systemic racism

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Jurnee Smollett in "Lovecraft Country" (HBO)

“It’s blood memory”: Jurnee Smollett on how the horrors in “Lovecraft Country” are felt in real life

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Raised By Wolves (HBO)

Ridley Scott’s new series “Raised by Wolves” imagines a bleak future for humanity – and android moms

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Love Fraud (Courtesy of SHOWTIME)

Showtime’s alluring “Love Fraud” exposes the common con artist charming America’s lonely women

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Chadwick Boseman at the 91st Academy Awards (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

T’Challa forever: We lost Chadwick Boseman but not the symbolism of what he represents

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"#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump" proposes that his public comments, such as on Twitter, offer a basis for psychological diagnosis outside of the clinical setting because they are observable behavior (Courtesy of #Unfit)

“#Unfit” delivers a Trump diagnosis we all know and warns of dire consequences for ignoring it

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Michaela Coel in "I May Destroy You" (HBO)

“I May Destroy You” ends with a revolutionary “ego death” because the other options would be a lie

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Former NXIVM member Sarah Edmonson in "The Vow" (HBO)

Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO’s chilling NXIVM docuseries “The Vow” proves a cult’s power

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The One and Only Ivan (Disney+)

Disney’s defiant, talking-gorilla movie offers kid-friendly lessons in civil disobedience

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Nicolette Robinson and Leslie Odom Jr. in "Love in the Time of Corona" (Freeform)

“Love in the Time of Corona” is not a drama worth catching

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